Libros de la editorial ASHGATE

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  • WAYS OF RESIDING IN TRANSFORMATION "INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES"

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    ASHGATE (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4724-2607-9
    • EAN: 9781472426079
    • Páginas: 304
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.119,00 €

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    Profound transformations in residential practices are emerging in Europe as well as throughout the urban world. They can be observed in the unfolding diversity of residential architecture and spatially restructured cities. The complexity of urban ...

  • VISUAL CULTURES OF FOUNDLING CARE IN RENAISSANCE ITALY

    PRESCIUTTI, DIANA BULLEN

    ASHGATE (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4724-5765-3
    • EAN: 9781472457653
    • Páginas: 284
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.178,38 €

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    The social problem of infant abandonment captured the public's imagination in Italy during the fifteenth century, a critical period of innovation and development in charitable discourses. As charity toward foundlings became a political priority, the ...

  • GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON CRITICAL ARCHITECTURE "PRAXIS RELOADED"

    HARTOONIAN, GEVORK

    ASHGATE (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4724-3813-3
    • EAN: 9781472438133
    • Páginas: 246
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.112,00 €

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    Judging from the debates taking place in both education and practice, it appears that architecture is deeply in crisis. New design and production techniques, together with the globalization of capital and even skilled-labour, have reduced ...

  • THE PRACTICE TURN IN ARCHITECTURE: BRUSSELS AFTER 1968

    DOUCET, ISABELLE

    ASHGATE (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4724-3735-8
    • EAN: 9781472437358
    • Páginas: 240
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.112,00 €

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    What makes a city? What makes architecture? And, what is to be included in the discussions of architecture and the city? Attempting to answer such ambitious questions, this book starts from a city's specificity and ...

  • ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE, AND SPIRITUALITY

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    ASHGATE (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4724-4171-3
    • EAN: 9781472441713
    • Páginas: 270
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.120,00 €

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    Architecture has long been understood as a cultural discipline able to articulate the human condition and lift the human spirit, yet the spirituality of architecture is rarely directly addressed in academic scholarship...

    The seventeen ...

  • CITIES AT RISK "PLANNING FOR AND RECOVERING FROM NATURAL DISASTERS"

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    ASHGATE (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4724-4168-3
    • EAN: 9781472441683
    • Páginas: 232
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.111,00 €

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    As levels of urbanization increase around the world, the growing concentrations of population and economic activity increases vulnerability to natural disasters. Interdependencies among urban populations mean that damage to the built environment, including water, sewer ...

  • TRANSFORMING DISTRESSED GLOBAL COMMUNITIES "MAKING INCLUSIVE, SAFE, RESILIENT, AND SUSTAINABLE CITIES"

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    ASHGATE (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4724-1064-1
    • EAN: 9781472410641
    • Páginas: 408
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.137,00 €

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    Many of our global cities are distressed and facing a host of issues: economic collapse in the face of rising expectations, social disintegration and civil unrest, and ecological degradation and the threats associated with climate ...

  • MAX LIEBERMANN, "MODERN ART AND MODERN GERMANY"

    DESHMUKH, MARION F.

    ASHGATE (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4724-3415-9
    • EAN: 9781472434159
    • Páginas: 476
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.161,85 €

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    Max Liebermann: Modern Art and Modern Germany is the first English-language examination of this German impressionist painter whose long life and career spanned nine decades. Through a close reading of key paintings and by a ...

  • FESTIVAL CULTURE IN THE WORLD OF THE SPANISH HABSBURGS.

    CHECA CREMADES, FERNANDO

    ASHGATE (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4094-3561-7
    • EAN: 9781409435617
    • Páginas: 315
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.120,00 €

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    In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in Early Modern Festivals. These spectacles articulated the self-image of ruling elites and played out the tensions of the diverse social strata. Responding to the growing ...

  • ARCHITECTURE OF GREAT EXPOSITIONS 1937-1959

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    ASHGATE (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4724-3460-9
    • EAN: 9781472434609
    • Páginas: 220
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.110,00 €

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    This book investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at six major European international and national expositions that took place between 1937 and 1959. The volume gives ...

  • SMART EVALUATION AND INTEGRATED DESIGN IN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT "TERRITORIAL SCENARIOS IN TRENTINO, ITALY"

    BUNETTA, GRAZIA

    ASHGATE (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4724-4583-4
    • EAN: 9781472445834
    • Páginas: 146
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.112,00 €

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    Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development puts forward an alternative approach to evaluation in spatial planning - one that focuses on 'territory' and 'landscape'. The book introduces an innovative evaluation approach, namely Territorial ...

  • UNBUILT UTOPIAN CITIES 1460 TO 1900: RECONSTRUCTING THEIR ARCHITECTURE AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

    MORRISON, TESSA

    ASHGATE (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4724-5265-8
    • EAN: 9781472452658
    • Páginas: 262
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.120,00 €

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    Bringing together ten utopian works that mark important points in the history and an evolution in social and political philosophies, this book not only reflects on the texts and their political philosophy and implications, but ...

  • URBAN PLANNING IN LUSOPHONE AFRICAN COUNTRIES

    Carlos Nunes Silva

    ASHGATE (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4724-4487-5
    • EAN: 9781472444875
    • Páginas: 380
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.126,00 €

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    Urban planning on the five Lusophone African countries - Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Príncipe - has so far been relatively overlooked in planning literature. Bringing together a team of leading ...

  • ARCHITECTURE REPERFORMED "THE POLITICS OF RECONSTRUCTION"

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    ASHGATE (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4724-5933-6
    • EAN: 9781472459336
    • Páginas: 168
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.102,00 €

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    First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a long bygone past. This book deals with the phenomenon of meticulous reconstruction in architecture. It ...

  • CONSTRUCTING A PLACE OF CRITICAL ARCHITECTURE IN CHINA "INTERMEDIATE CRITICALITY IN THE JOURNAL TIME + ARCHITECTURE"

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    ASHGATE (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4724-6369-2
    • EAN: 9781472463692
    • Páginas: 250
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.111,00 €

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    For the past 30 years, The Chinese journal Time + Architecture (Shidai Jianzhu) has focused on publishing innovative and exploratory work by emerging architects based in private design firms who were committed to new material, ...

  • SHOPPING MALLS AND PUBLIC SPACE IN MODERN CHINA

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    ASHGATE (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4724-5611-3
    • EAN: 9781472456113
    • Páginas: 290
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.112,00 €

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    China's rise as an economic superpower has been inescapable. Statistical hyperbole has been accompanied by a plethora of highly publicized architectural forms that brand the regeneration of its increasingly globalized urban centres. Despite the sizeable ...

  • CRITICAL GAMING "INTERACTIVE HISTORY AND VIRTUAL HERITAGE"

    CHAMPION, ERIK

    ASHGATE (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4724-2290-3
    • EAN: 9781472422903
    • Páginas: 240
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.113,00 €

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    This book explains how designing, playing and modifying computer games, and understanding the theory behind them, can strengthen the area of digital humanities. This book aims to help digital humanities scholars understand both the issues ...

  • A MOMENT OF EQUALITY FOR LATIN AMERICA? "CHALLENGES FOR REDISTRIBUTION"

    FRITZ, BARBARA

    ASHGATE (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4724-4672-5
    • EAN: 9781472446725
    • Páginas: 300
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.123,00 €

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    Unlike other regions around the world, several Latin American countries have managed to reduce income inequality over the last decade. Higher growth rates and growing employment, but also innovative wage policies and social programs, have ...

  • MAKING AND MOVING SCULPTURE IN EARLY MODERN ITALY

    DI DIO, KELLEY HELMSTUTLER

    ASHGATE (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4724-6090-5
    • EAN: 9781472460905
    • Páginas: 288
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.123,00 €

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    In recent years, art historians have begun to delve into the patronage, production and reception of sculptures-sculptors' workshop practices; practical, aesthetic, and esoteric considerations of material and materiality; and the meanings associated with materials and ...

  • PLACE-BASED EVALUATION FOR INTEGRATED LAND-USE MANAGEMENT

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    ASHGATE (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4724-4548-3
    • EAN: 9781472445483
    • Páginas: 418
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.125,00 €

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    In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis placed on local and regional integration in major planning projects and infrastructure development including roads, rail and waterways. This emphasis is not only on integrating various ...